Listen up, child, there's one thing I've got to make clear   Yeah, I do   You don't see it coming   Hear it coming   Acting like you know nothing   About that strange rumor going on around here      Take me back to the land of the living   Take me down where the sun do shine   Take me back, things be different   You get it, got it, ooooh, you better get it now      Chorus:   Stay alive, let your soul rise up from the bottom   Stay alive, don't let it take you down for the very last time   Stay alive, it don't do you no good looking up from the bottom   Stay alive, don't let it take you down for the very last time      You talk about lies and pain   It don't do you no good with your face in the cocaine      Love, hate, watch that mother   She'll bring you down like no other I've seen   If you know what I mean      Take me back, got to face that demon   Take me down, don't play it's fool   Take me back, things be different   You get it, got it, ooooh, you better get it now      Chorus      No, I ain't seen nothin'   No, I ain't seen nothin'   No, I ain't seen nothin' like you before      Repeat chorus